ArticleMovement disorders clinical practice2023
What Is Hemidystonia?
Article in Movement disorders clinical practice, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.
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- Definition and Classification of Dystonia.Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society · 2025Review
- Describing Clinical Features of Movement Disorders for Effective Research Reporting.Movement disorders clinical practice · 2024Article
- Overview of Movement Disorders Secondary to Drugs.Clinics and practice · 2023Review
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Abstract
Background: Hemidystonia is defined as dystonia restricted to one side of the body. It is traditionally believed to result from a lesion in the contralateral hemisphere. Objectives: To describe a series of hemidystonia patients without lesions on brain imaging. Methods: We searched for individuals with potential hemidystonia who were included in the Dystonia Coalition or Movement Disorder Society Genetic mutation database (MDSgene), and conducted a systematic review. Results: We found 10 individuals classified as hemidystonia or with homolateral limb dystonia among 3696 cases enrolled by the Dystonia Coalition, 9 cases in MDSgene, and one idiopathic case in the literature. None had evidence of a brain lesion. Body distributions used to define hemidystonia varied considerably and were not always restricted to one side of the body. Conclusions: Hemidystonia may be idiopathic or genetic, without any obvious brain lesion. The varied use of the term suggests the need for more specific clinical criteria to define "half the body."
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